Tag: Covid-19 Impact
Expedia offers Covid-19 tests to Singapore travellers
To ease the pre-travel preparation process for Singapore travellers, Expedia and Raffles Medical Group have teamed up to offer pre-departure Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction...
Singapore’s vaccinated travel lanes lift flight, hotel bookings, but overall improvements...
Singapore's move to further ease border controls as well as social restrictions have led to an uptick in hotel enquires and bookings from countries with a vaccinated travel lane (VTL) with the city-state.
TTG Conversations: Five Questions with Laura Houldsworth, Booking.com
Booking.com's latest global Travel Predictions study has shown an intense desire among consumers to relax and recharge with travel come 2022, but conflicts in...
Tour operators unperturbed by Garuda’s flight cuts
Garuda Indonesia will axe 97 routes next year to prevent the beleaguered Indonesian flag carrier from falling even deeper into the doldrums.
If the plan...
Phillipa Harrison
Tourism Australia’s domestic tourism push has been successful, and the next challenge is to win back international visitors, its managing director tells Adelaine Ng.
Vietnam welcomes first foreign tourists in nearly 20 months
More than 400 international tourists arrived in Vietnam last week, the first batch of travellers to the South-east Asian country in almost 20 months.
Two...
Japan mulls restart of travel subsidy campaign
The Japanese government plans to restart its domestic travel subsidy programme, Go To Travel, in February, as it looks to revitalise the pandemic-hit tourism...
Future of hotel franchising in APAC shines bright
Hotel franchising will become an increasingly attractive and important business model in the Asia-Pacific region – which is home to a large group of...
Millennials to lead the next wave of food tourism
Food will play a bigger role in travel as millennials quest for extraordinary culinary experiences and rediscover new eating trends in their own countries,...
Hilton predicts travel trends for 2022
Post-pandemic travellers are predicted to embrace pet travel, reunion trips, contactless experiences, culinary adventures and sustainable travel, according to Hilton's new global trends report...